Garden-hoe.



Patented Aug.

vv:TNEssEs ATTO RN EY handle to enable either of the blades to be JOHNM. PRINGLE, OF CASSVIL'LE, WISCONSIN.

GARDEN-HOE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 3, 1915.

Application filed December 29, 1914. Serial No. 879,504.

The object of the present invention is to improve the construction ofgarden hoes and to provide a simple, practical, and eflicient garden hoeof strong and durable constriiction, designed to avoid hand weeding, andadapted to successfully reach the weeds among plants, especially smallones.

A further object of the invention is to provide a garden hoe of thischaracter equipped with a pair of blades and adapted to be reversed bypartially rotating the instantly brought into position for use.

With these and other objects in view the invention consists in theconstruction and novel combination of parts hereinafter fully described,illustrated in the accompanyingdrawing, and pointed out in the claimhereto appended, it being understood that various changes in the'form,proportion, size and minor details of construction, within the scope ofthe claim, may be resorted to without departin from the s irit orsacrificin any of the a vantages o the invention.

11 the drawingz Figure l'is a perspective view of a hoe constructed inaccordance with this invention. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal sectional viewof the same, the dotted lines showing the tilted position of-the hoe.Fig.

3 is an end elevation. Fig. 4 is a transversesectional view on the line44 of Fig. 3.

Like numerals of reference designate corresponding parts in all thefigures of the drawing. v

In the accompanying drawing, in which is illustrated the preferredembodiment of the invention, the garden hoe comprises in itsconstruction a flat plate or member 1 constructed of sheet steel orother suitable material, and bent transversely at or near the center at2 to form two straight blades 3 and 4, which are arranged at an obtuseangle to each other. The blade 3, which is provided with an outercutting edge 5, is designed to be of the width of an ordinary gardenhoe,

and is adapted to perform the functions thereof. The other blade 4,which is reduced in width to form a narrow blade, is

tapered recess 6, forming a pair of tapering points 7 located atopposite sides of the narrow blade and having inclined or angularlydisposed inner edges 8. The inner edges 8 of the points 7 are beveled atthe front, and the narrow blade 4 is adapted particularly for weedingamong small plants and enables the hoe to successfully reach weeds whichusually must be removed by hand when an ordinary hoe is used.

The hoe is provided with a handle 9 fitted in a socket 10 which isprovided with a straight shank 11 arranged in alinement with the handleand rigid with the plate or member 1 and extending at the angle or bend2 thereof. This arrangement of the handle with relation to. the plate ormember enables either of the blades 3 and 4 to be bent or set at thedesired angle with relation to the handle, without aflecting ornecessitating any change in the position of the other blade, and at thesame time, the full length of each blade is available in the use of theimplement. The blades are disposed at different acute angles to thehandle, but the angle may, of course, be changed if desired. The shank11 is preferably formed integral with the attaching plate 14, but it maybe connected with the same in any other desired manner, and "the saidplate is secured by rivets or other suitable fastening devices 15taching plate, which is preferably triangular, as shown, is bent .at anangle at 16 to form two sides or wings, which are arranged at an obtuseangle, corresponding with the angularity of the blades of the plate ormember and fitting fiat against the same.

What is claimed is A hoe of the class described comprising a plate ormember bent transversely at an intermediate point to form two bladeswhich are arranged at an obtuse angle to each other, an attaching platefitted against the blade or member at the angle 'thereofand angularlybent to conform to the angularity of the plate .or member, means forriveting the said attachment plate to the said plate attaching plate andprovided with a socketor member at opposite sides of the bend, and as myown, I have hereto aflixed my signaa straight shank termed integral withthe ture in the presence of two witnesses.

for the reception of a handle, the Iatter be- JOHN PRINGLE' .5 ingthereby disposed at an acute angle to Witnesses:

each of the said blades. M. H. HABERMANN,

In testimony, that I claim the foregoing G. A. KLINDT.

